Trials and Tribulations of an Addicted Crafter

Hi, My name is Bob and I live in Augusta, GA. The wife and I celebrated our 54 years of marriage in March of this year, and have started our second 50 years. My wife is very supportive of my craft addiction. My main addiction is Copic Markers and card making. Looking forward to hearing your comments about my blog.

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I am retired from the US Army after 24 years of service. I am happily married, and celebrated our 50 years of marriage on March 10th. My wife is very supportive of my craft addiction.My main addiction is card making. She is quite crafty herself and does crocheting,plastic canvas and kniting. Have one furbaby "Sandy" a five year old cat. She rules the house

I have been playing with "Print then Cut" function of Cricut Design Space.The more I play with it, the more I like it. The big thing is that Provocraftseems to be hinting that more improvements are in the works. I sure hopeso.

So, yesterday I tried to really given the Print then Cut update a real workout. So far I have tried out various variations of printing then cutting imagescontained in the image gallery and cartridges that I have purchased. Whenthe image prints out it has a heavy border around the image. Verydisconcerting to start, but, the heavy border is to allow the Cricut ExploreTo cut close to the actual image.

The Halloween card shown below was made with the Print the Cut function.The only item that had me worried was the spider web. It looked like one bigblob of black, but as you can see it cut out alright.

The other items were also cut with the Print then Cut function. The two thatare colored were from cartridges I have. The image of the girl with therufﬂed dress is a digital image that I bought and downloaded. Think of thepossibilities. You could size the image to the correct size, then print the item from Design Space then color it with your favorite coloring medium, mine is Copic markers. Then when you aresatisﬁed with it, put it on the mat and cut the colored image out. Walla, youhave a perfectly colored image that is cut and ready to use on a card. And,no hand cutting. Yay!!!!

"Examples of "Print then Cut"

They have also improved the weld function and added a slice function, which is normally only found on the high end software.

Okay, so I guess that's about all for today. If you have any questions, leave it as a comment and I'll answer back.